All in all he became the living embodiment of that old English socialism that was not anti-parliamentary but was always suspicious of what power - or the pursuit of it - could do to people whom he described as 'the backstairs crawlers and the arse-lickers of the Parliamentary Labour Party'.

It’s become a cliché that As hire As and Bs hire Cs, and since Bush was a proud C-student … well, it’s clear that his Texas entourage was made up of arse-lickers and incompetents whose defining characteristic.